On the homepage, Hanwha Life Esports announced the two players of the squad, Kingen, 'Sung-Hon Hwang and' Life 'Jung-min Kim, expired contracts with the team. Accordingly, HLE will seek the replacement of Kingen and Life with the transfer market options.
Kingen was born in 2000, played in the top line and used to wear APK Prince, KT Rolster, Bilibili Gaming and DRX before coming to HLE. Since playing professionally in 2017, Kingen has only won one championship, the 2023 World Championship with Drx. Meanwhile, support Life used to play for Geng Esports, KT Rolster and joined HLE in the 2023 season. However, Life has not won any title, only attended Worlds 2020 (Top 8) and Worlds 2021 (Top 4).
In the last 2023 season, Kingen and HLE ranked the top 4 finals at LCK Spring and Summer 2023. However, HLE was unable to win tickets to Worlds 2023 when losing 1-3 to the other Dplus in the regional qualifying finals.
HLE's transfer plan and other teams will be greatly influenced by sports financial regulations and salary fund limits applied by the LCK Organizing Committee from the next 2024 season. When the sports financial regulations are applied, the players with good achievements or long -term competition with a team will enjoy many preferential regimes to foster star players.
At this time, LCK has issued various policies and measures to support the sustainable development of the team and the tournament, including competent representative companies and rookie development. The organizers hope new policies and measures will help LCK become a tournament at the international level and are loved for many years.
Sports financial regulations will limit the annual salary based on the total salary paid for the 5 official/highest team players in each team. In particular, the reserve components and other players in the team are not included in the salary limit.
